After dinner, Pixiu and Albert are still arguing about their respective cooking skills, while Hauf and Sharis are arguing about whether Dipp has a witch or not. The others had a variety of topics, but they all hated intellectualism and left the space entirely to Dipp and his family.

After a night of private talk in the boudoir, after a vigorous battle, Dipu finally returned to a peaceful family life. The only thing that didn't go well was that Angela didn't want to call this strange uncle "father". So Dipu accompanied this girl crazy every day, and finally cultivated some father-daughter feelings.

In the days that followed, Dip began to understand the changes in his dark eyes. To be honest, the change in the black eye collar is simply too great, and even Dipu has a strange feeling.

The first is population. Due to the arrival of those war slaves, coupled with the surrender of the population on the plains, the population under the control of the Black Eye Collar has exceeded four million. Due to the "disaster relief policy" of the Black Eye Collar, which stipulates that the food rations of each refuge person are guaranteed, the population scattered in the plains is at most a few hundred thousand, and the rest have all taken refuge in Dipu, at least nominally.

And with population, there is construction. The restoration of order, the implementation of the government system and laws, and the implementation of education...... , all of this, let the internal affairs begin to operate normally. Although it is not yet self-sufficient in food, with a large number of land reclamation and the promulgation of the "Prohibition Order" on the plains, it will only take three to five years, which should be able to meet the food supply of the entire region.

Regarding internal affairs, Dipu has a rough understanding, because Lisa is doing a very good job, and Dipu will definitely not interfere indiscriminately. Dipp only made the following demands on Lisa:

The first is to expand the outer city again. Space was set aside for development, and construction of the city walls began. Since a large number of the workshops of Alexander's magic machines will be built in the Blackeye Collar, the Blackeye Collar needs to prepare early;

The second is to build the lord's palace of Dipu. When he returned this time, Dipu was ready to move his lord's mansion to the original Blackeye Town, and was no longer ready to live in the Blackeye Castle on the mountain. Due to the Forbidden Demon God Ruins will be developed sooner or later. Personnel will also come and go, and it is not necessary to let those outsiders enter Dip's house casually, right?

Finally, of course, the monastery where Chenel was built. Dipu was going to build the monastery next to his lord's house. When the time comes, open the wall and open a door, anyway...... It's like building a bigger lord's house yourself!

That's all about internal affairs, and Dipp is most concerned about his own private army.

The current private army of the DPP is a limited development, not a general mobilization. Although the black-eyed collar implements military training for the whole people, the limit of troops can reach 800,000 or 900,000. But in order not to affect production. Therefore, the private army of the black-eyed collar still maintains a "very small" size.

It is said to be "very small", but in fact it is already small. Let's talk about the Knights of the Holy Spring, under the painstaking management of Franco, coupled with the recruitment and training of the territorial school, the current Holy Spring has formed two brigades - the first brigade and the apprentice brigade.

And in the first brigade there were already more than six hundred qualified knights. Including the apprentice knights and knight squires, there were more than 6,000 people in total. The apprentice brigade had more personnel, with a total of more than 8,000 horses. Most of these people were cultivated in the Black-Eye Collar School, and their temporary combat effectiveness was certainly not as good as that of a formal knight. But over time, new knights will be created.

In addition to this, the private army of Dipu had three more regiments. A 6,000-strong light infantry regiment, which will be equipped with a large number of large equipment, mainly responsible for the defense of Blackeye City. A hussar regiment of five thousand people. This regiment is all elite warriors drawn from Grenville City, Redwood Collar, Blackeye Collar and Magic Lake Island, and is responsible for mobile operations in the three territories and the Plains. A heavy infantry regiment of six thousand people, consisting of half-orcs.

In addition, the Black-Eyed Collar currently has a mixed group. And this mixed group is composed of 2,000 half-orcs and 2,000 battle-experienced lords. However, this mixed group is not in the Black Eye Collar right now. They are working as mercenaries to complete the mission introduced by the banking group.

And the magic survey of the black eye collar has also been fruitful. Now more than two hundred and twenty magic apprentices have been selected. That's a staggering amount indeed, though the vast majority of them are unlikely to be upgraded to mage. However, after taking the primary magic potion, all of these people were able to perform some elementary alchemy work such as the "Burst Arrow".

It should be said that according to the scale of the Black Eye Collar, it is crazy to maintain such a large private army, and it is simply unsustainable from a financial point of view. It's nothing more than that Dipu has those windfalls. in order to continue to make up for it. So according to Lisa, I hope to reduce the size a little.

And it can also be seen from the configuration of the private army of the Prussians. His mobile forces were nothing more than those two light cavalry regiments and heavy infantry regiments. In fact, these two regiments are all fighting with the Holy Spring Knights. And most of the military spending of the Knights of the Holy Spring actually comes from the Black-Eyed Collar. Since this is the case, then as the Knights of the Holy Spring continue to grow, the private army of the Black-Eyed Leader should also shrink accordingly. In terms of total strength. It won't drop much in strength either.

However, Lisa's suggestion was immediately rejected by Dipp. He had just returned from the Demon Realm, and he understood that the Demon Invasion was imminent, and it would be two years at most. How will the situation develop then? No one can say for sure. Not only can we not downsize, but we also need to expand our capabilities by leaps and bounds.

Therefore, Dip put forward the following points:

Intensify the training of existing units and replenish the existing units, and stock up on the equipping of a further light cavalry regiment and a heavy infantry regiment through the purchase.

In addition, a new bow regiment of 3,000 men and a chariot regiment of 3,000 men will be formed. The archery regiment is not much introduced, anyway, the Yuansheng Continent now has it, and it has mature equipment, establishment and tactics.

As for that chariot regiment? That's the new innovation of the first one. Since he used modified vehicles to assist in combat several times, Tipu decided to simply invent a special vehicle for combat - the magic chariot.

In the original Yuansheng Continent, magic vehicles were quite expensive, and they were used by the nobles and rich to compete for wealth, and they could not be used in the army at all. But now the situation is different. Due to Tipu's ability to produce magic bricks and a large number of magic apprentices, he was able to produce magic vehicles in batches. The load capacity and speed of the magic vehicle are also much higher than that of ordinary animal-powered vehicles, so it can be equipped with thick protective plates to form a magic vehicle with super defense. (To be continued.) )